Random Shapes
It seems more and more blog networks are getting started and I’m glad a teen blog network is among them. Today David Askaripour announced he’s starting an Entrepreneur Blog Network, The Cowboy announced a few days ago that he’s starting his own blogging collective and I know of a few others in the works.
Now-a-days it seems almost everyone has a blog so how long will it be until everyone is in a blog network too?
A little less then a year ago I decided I wanted to be a web designer. I created this site and found a few local web design companies. I needed a summer job so I emailed these companies to see if one of them would hire me. One did. I did my best and learned all I could. I taught myself CSS and web standards and even a little javascript and PHP. All the things I learned over the summer were things I should have known before I even thought about becoming a web designer. I’m amazed someone hired me but I’m extremely grateful she did.
Summer ended which meant school started and I didn’t have the time to work anymore. I continued to play around on the web and I started my own blog. Having a blog opened up a …
It’s been a long day and it’s been even longer since I wrote a post. I’ve had a good time redesigning the Random Shapes site lately and I learned a lot while I was working on it.
With the original version Kevin did all the graphics so all I had to do was the coding (the CSS and XHTML stuff) and WordPress integration. We didn’t have much time to build it so we did the “Getting Real” thing and just narrowed our scope. Instead of launching a site with lots of features done poorly we launched a site with less features done well. Now that we’ve had more time to build the site we’ve added some really cool features with more on the way.
The network site has forced me to learn PHP and what feels like everything there …
As I get more work I quiet down a bit. The CSS Reboot on May 1st is getting closer and there is still much to do. This site will be redesigned and the Random Shapes site is being completely revamped.
I won’t give any screenshots or hints as to what this site will look like but here’s a sample of what you can expect for the new RS site.
You can probably guess what some of the new features will be but I assure you there’s more. 
David Krug interviewed me a few days ago for Blog Herald about the Random Shapes Network. It’s been really cool working with him and I’m amazed at all the positive reactions we’re getting. Thanks David for the interview and a big thank you to all the RS members for making this work. The next couple months and the next couple years are gonna be fun! You can read the interview here.
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